| Marilyn Tucker Quayle | |
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| Second Lady of the United States | |
| In office January 20, 1989 – January 20, 1993 |
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| Preceded by | Barbara Bush |
| Succeeded by | Tipper Gore |
| Personal details | |
| Born | July 29, 1949 Indianapolis, Indiana |
| Spouse(s) | Dan Quayle |
| Children | Tucker, Benjamin, Corinne |
| Alma mater | Purdue University, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
Marilyn Tucker Quayle (born July 29, 1949) is an American lawyer, novelist, and political figure who is the wife of former U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle and held the unofficial title of Second Lady of the United States from 1989 until 1993.
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Marilyn Tucker was born in the Meridian-Kessler area of Indianapolis, Indiana to Mary Alice Craig and Warren S. Tucker. The fourth of six children, Marilyn's parents were both doctors. She had a strict Christian upbringing.[1] The Tuckers were longtime admirers of Colonel Robert B. Thieme, Jr., the founder and former pastor of Berachah Church in Houston, who was described in an Associated Press article as "known for unorthodox biblical interpretations and for verbal attacks on liberals, welfare recipients, homosexuals and others." Years later, when media attention focused on her family's religious beliefs, Marilyn Quayle said in an NBC interview: "I grew up with my mother listening to (Thieme's) tapes. ... I have never listened to him on social issues. I didn't even know that he espoused any."[2] She does defend his biblical teachings.[1] As for her own religion, Marilyn Tucker Quayle is a Presbyterian.
Marilyn attended Broad Ripple High School and subsequently received a bachelor's degree in political science from Purdue University. While attending Purdue, she ran for treasurer of her freshman class.[1] She later attended law school at night and earned a J.D. at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, where she met Dan Quayle, the son of a newspaper publisher. The two sat next to each other in the front row in class. Marilyn frequently spoke up and sought out the professor after class was over.[1][3] She and Dan Quayle were married 10 weeks later, on November 18, 1972. They live in Paradise Valley, Arizona, and have three children: Tucker, founder of an investment company called Tynwald Capital; Benjamin, a Republican congressman representing Arizona's 3rd Congressional District; and Corinne.
The Quayles worked as attorneys in Huntington, Indiana at a law practice, Quayle and Quayle. The couple suspended their practice after he was elected to Congress in 1976. After the family moved to the Washington, D.C. area in 1977, Marilyn remained actively involved in Dan Quayle's career. She offered him advice on strategy, clipped relevant articles, and read his paperwork at home.[1]
When Dan Quayle was elected Vice President in 1988, the governor of Indiana Robert Orr offered to appoint Marilyn Quayle to the Senate seat vacated by her husband. She declined, citing a potential conflict of interest with the George H. W. Bush administration.[4]
During her husband's term as Vice President of the United States, Marilyn Quayle served on the board of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as Chairman of the International Disasters Advisory Committee for the Agency for International Development, and as the National Cancer Institute's national spokesperson for NCI's Breast Cancer Summits. She also served on the United States' special high-level council for the International Decade for Natural Hazard Reduction. She shares her husband's Republican opposition to abortion and the ERA.[1][5]
Her Secret Service codename was, or is, "Sunshine".[6]
In a speech before the 1992 Republican National Convention, Quayle dismissed Bill Clinton's claim to a new generation of leadership, saying, "Not everyone demonstrated, dropped out, took drugs, joined in the sexual revolution or dodged the draft."[7]
In the 1990s, Marilyn Quayle authored or co-authored several books, including two works of thriller fiction written with her sister, Nancy Tucker Northcott. The novels (Embrace The Serpent and The Campaign) follow a fictional black evangelical Republican senator who becomes the victim of a liberal-media smear campaign and an unnamed Democratic president of questionable morality. The senator eventually clears his name and the novels conclude with the suicide of the Democratic president. She also wrote Moments that Matter with her husband.
Marilyn Quayle served as a strong force behind her husband's bid in the United States presidential election, 2000. His campaign ended early, prior to any primary voting, after establishment Republican backing aligned behind George W. Bush.
Actively involved in a number of charitable causes, Marilyn Quayle has placed a special emphasis on disaster preparedness and breast cancer research. Her mother died of breast cancer at the age of 56.
Quayle is currently a partner in the law firm of Krieg, DeVault, Alexander & Capehart, where she practices general corporate law with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, international law, and health care law. When she took the job in 1993, it was announced that she would be referred to as Marilyn Tucker Quayle.[8]
In 2010, Quayle narrated an advertisement for Georgia gubernatorial candidate Karen Handel.[9]
| Honorary titles | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Barbara Bush |
Second Lady of the United States 1989-1993 |
Succeeded by Tipper Gore |
| United States order of precedence | ||
| Preceded by Dan Quayle Former Vice President |
Order of precedence in the United States of America | Succeeded by Al Gore Former Vice President |